There are also several varieties of herbs, characteristic to the Wiltshire downland, including for devil's bit scabious ( " Succisa pratensis " ), saw-wort ( " Serratula tinctoria " ), and chalk milkwort ( " Polygala calcarea " ).
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In the British Isles the main food plant of the larval stage of the marsh fritillary is the Devil's bit scabious, " Succisa pratensis ", but can also include the field scabious " Knautia arvensis " and the small scabious " Scabiosa columbaria ".
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In the British Isles the main food plant of the larval stage of the marsh fritillary is the Devil's bit scabious, " Succisa pratensis ", but can also include the field scabious " Knautia arvensis " and the small scabious " Scabiosa columbaria ".
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In the British Isles the main food plant of the larval stage of the marsh fritillary is the Devil's bit scabious, " Succisa pratensis ", but can also include the field scabious " Knautia arvensis " and the small scabious " Scabiosa columbaria ".
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A triple-green image of a field scabious plant with those bold-edged sepals and the light green and brown bud orbs nested between them, an almost perfectly matching green bug that, in a way only a bug could, nearly defies a human's understanding of gravity before an almost dreamy and halo-like green background.
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Flowers observed throughout the summer : cowslip, scabious, red and white campions, herb-Robert, red and white dead nettle, mallow, scarlet pimpernel, trefoil, yarrow, yellow rattle, bed straw, oxeye daisies, red and white clover, hare's-foot clover, grounsel, hawkweed, germander speedwell, a range of tall grasses.
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The grasslands at Tuthill Quarry are typical of the type, being characterised by the presence of blue moor-grass, " Sesleria albicans ", and small scabious, " Scabiosa columbaria ", but a number of less common species are also present, including common butterwort, " Pinguicula vulgaris ", and adder's-tongue fern, " Ophioglossum vulgatum ".
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Gentle slopes on the Maiden Paps support species-rich Magnesian Limestone grassland dominated by upright brome Bromus erectus, blue moor-grass Sesleria albicans, crested hair-grass Koeleria macrantha, red fescue Festuca rubra, glaucous sedge Carex flacca and herbs such as common rock-rose Helianthemum nummularia, salad burnet Sanguisorba minor, fairy flax Linum catharticum, wild thyme Thymus praecox, pignut Conopodium majus, small scabious Scabiosa columbaria and sea plantain Plantago maritima.
